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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.271
ভারতী কহেন,—তুমি ঈশ্বর, অন্তর্যামী ।
যে করাহ, সে করিব,—স্বতন্ত্র নহি আমি ॥ ২৭১ ॥
bhāratī kahena, — tumi īśvara, antaryāmī
ye karāha, se kariba, — svatantra nahi āmi
Keśava Bhāratī replied to the Lord, “You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul. I must do whatever You cause me to do. I am not independent of You.”
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Keśava Bhāratī recognizes the Lord as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supersoul.
He says that he must do whatever the Lord causes him to do.
He openly acknowledges that he is not independent of the Lord.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
But if we accept the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we can understand that everything is possible. There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection, because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What would it mean for me to acknowledge my dependence on the Lord?
Before one task today, pause and remember that you are not independent of the Lord.
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